Donbass has been officially ceded to Russia...Putin, Merkel say Ukraine's Donbass should get special status - Kremlin

via Yahoo News.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on Monday that Ukraine should give its separatist-led Donbass region a special status set out in Ukrainian law, the Kremlin said.

It gave no further details of the leaders' discussions on the future of Donbass during a phone call, but agreement on its status would be a step towards convening a four-nation summit on ending five years of conflict in the eastern region.

Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy said last month that Kiev had agreed to grant Donbass special status and let local elections go ahead there. The breakthrough raised hopes that a date would be set for the summit involving Kiev, Moscow, Berlin and Paris.

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Good so can we finally shed the idea of helping Nazis and a failed state in Europe and get on with the hard work of getting our own house in order?

Germany, France and Moscow have all decided that Ukraine ain't worth it.  Can someone call the so called best and brightest in the US and inform them of the news????